Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall run into danger, unless you bring to the Treasury important sums of which there is immediate need. France will treat with severity those who lead her into another phase of inadequate taxation followed by inflation and ultimately by disaster!" The Significance. Financial experts noted that the Doumer scheme rests squarely upon the single principle of "indirect taxation" (taxes to be paid in the form of a disagreeable little stamp every time anybody buys anything): the 3,800,000,000-franc "taxes on business transactions." Such taxation is relatively easy to enforce, and of course sure to be extremely unpopular...
...full heat of war-time fury the great powers who won the war were inclined to omit their vanquished enemies from the scheme of re-constructive federations but now that only the faint echoes of war remain, there is evident a growing tendency to appreciate the gravity of the situation and the necessity of including all great powers in the international union. Asiatic powers which fought on the side of the Allied victors are naturally included in the scheme and many other small Eastern principalities have been offered the opportunity to join the League if they so chose...
...good measure, and while thrown in for good measure, and while we cannot but approve the senti ment which suggests that the liquor customarily used at the christening of a ship might better be dedicated to beverage purposes, we feel bound to protest against any such modernist scheme of versification. The redeeming feature of this page is the excellent drawing by Mr. Codfish Cabot showing Lampy in the act of launching a ship emblematic of the fifty years of his jovial existence...
...Scranton Times brought the conference together by a plan for a five year conference together by a plan for a five year contract at present wages, subject to successful negotiations at the end of two years. Because it protects against untoward wage reductions, the miners quickly accepted this scheme as a basis for conference. But the operators now object that it would freeze the wage scale, and are busy explaining that their return to conference does not mean acquiescence in Mr. Lynett's project...
Both sides seek guarantees, the one against sudden wage reduction, the other both against the snooping investigations that were latent in the first proposal of the miners and against the trap of fading profits into which a lowered coal price might turn the "frozen wage" scheme. In truth the dangers of fixed wages or prices are too real to be overlooked. A sliding scale relating wages and prices would suit the operators better, but the miners would still fear secret intrigue. With all its defects, the first proposal of the miners is the clearest of all the plans. It requires...